The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-09-23
The IRISH JauntinS Car.

DJRLIS, SEFT, 1.-The j auntingcar
is the great feature Of street life in Dub
lin. IL is the popular method Of convey
ance. IL will hold two people on each
side besides the driver. The regular
fare tor their use is TWO shilljugs for the
the lirst hour and eighteen pence for the
next. NOu learn this after you have
paid all kinds of prices. These jaunt-
Iug-caT drivers are perfectly meTcl!eSs
il shelr charges unless YOU make bar
gain with them beforehand. No mat
ter how liberal yOU may think YOu are
in paying them, these drivers look as Te-
prOachfully az you rs II yOu were at
tempting 20 rob them. The Irish drivers
in the streets ot Dublin are the most
reckless Of auv / have ever seen. Their
horses are tough and why and are
driven nearly on the dead run At the
slightest opportunity the driver forces
his horse INTO 2 CaliUp. Asthe streets are
very uneven and badly paved riding on a
i8untlnC car gives much more exercise
than ordinary horseback riding. The
first driver 1 had OyeTCharged me IN suCh
q s.upeuaOus way that he could not keep
his face straight when Ez named his
price. Then. after roaring a. his own
avarice, he camlv lowered the price him
self and announced that ne would take
so much. ! paid Il 10 him. telling him
that ! knew Il was double MS fare.
After he had received il BE burst Out IN
another rCsr. You ale right il Is
about double, but II isn't every day we
GET a chance and then went of -
peTfCC, COMMISSIONS Of amusement oyer
his successful strike al Tie stranger.
The excessive vClu5iIl:y OF the driver
IS marvellous. They Won't drive You
D.. . q
sulky directly AID make II ~ by extra
charges. They are much better natuTed
10 each other than the EuElish cahbies.
The tJsJ night 7 was out my driver ian
the shafts Of his car tUll tilt into the
back % another car. | thought for a
moment that he would take the hack OF
the head car off. But he backed his
his horse of, and when the driver ne
had run into looked a1grily back at him
he said Look ahead of ven, my boy.
Never look behind when you are driv-
ing" And with this he swung out 10
the right and passed his friends wheel
by about q IaTtcT Of an inch, going on
the dead bu.s down SaRkvule street
The aggTieycl fellow grInned at the
assurance OF his associate and stopped
looking behind.
The last man had continually called
nv attention 10 the beautiful black Irish
male attached TO his car. He told me
she could make ten miles An hOUT day in
and day out for years. He would let
her go fer sixty guIneaT. l pretended
30 mIsuuderstaEd and said l did not
think she was worth s!E guiueas. This
made my driver indignant. and be spent
;he next fifteen or twenty minutes in
trying 10 tip me off, by WhiTling sud
IDENTIFY abound corners, or spinning his
car along Cn one wheel down some dark
street or slippery lane. But yet on the
whole they were so much more interest
ing and amusing than the English cab
bies, because they meS every possible
situation with such wit and with such
assurance. Wednesday afternoon |
asked one car driver how much he would
charge 10 drive me out TO the horse show
and back about mile distant He
promptly responded half guinea, with
out blink. The next man was ready
TO GO for two shillings. This extraOT-
dinaTy drop did not dIscOmpOse the first
driver. He stepped forward as If | were
going with him as a matter of course.
saying in the most c0ntemptuOus way.
in speaking Of the two-shillinC man,
"Iie viii not ha able tO give you such a
drive as I viii 80 As | WAS not engaged
al Ina, po-tlsulaT time in buying any
tarc!ful ElUd of superior Irish driving
AZ g hI@h-class GguTe / went with the
two shilling man.-Nu.riJL fo-rC>ugH0-
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